Agenda:¶
- Final check-ins about stuff before opening
- Fill the staffing calendar
- Decide about womens’ night
- Brainstorm Code of Conduct
- How to strengthen & improve the FR community
Final check-ins about stuff before opening¶
what to call “volunteering”?¶
- free ride night
- community building night
- give-back night
- housekeeping
- organization
- team night
- member night
Info from the EAB committee meeting:¶
- new form for volunteering for classes – like a ticket that shows you have done their hours before taking a drop-in classes
- We are using Google Checkout for registering for program classes – won’t pay a fee because BP has already done
- enrollment for EAB will be done at a set time on each open shop, maybe 8pm
- Monday drop-in classes – will allow a set number (e.g. 4) of the participants to pre-register.
- will we not set a hard limit on the number of EAB’s in progress at any time?
no – because there are all the other limits - reminder about who can get trained – only council members until we feel we have straigtened out our finances – you also need a key
- training to be an instructor – shadow, then co-teach respective (or all) drop-in classes
Village Bikes project – in a couple of months, contact them. They give us a container, we fill it up with ~ 560 bikes, they send it to Ghana.
What needs done before the shop opens¶
- Women’s night: backup person with a key; if there is no female staffer, fall back to a male staffer to offer women participants to staff women’s night.
- Who qualifies as council members at this point: people who spent time on restructuring meetings and work? Yes.
- Who should get a key?
- Fill the staffing calendar: send an eamil about it!
- Need to make posters about new organizations
- Order general parts (not funky parts for very specific types of bikes) that we are short on in order to build bikes
- need to find out what
- create a system to know which parts are low
- rrevise the parts drawers, especially the small parts
- may buy some used parts from Kraynick
- functional gauge for easy sorting of tubes and tyres by diameter and maybe thickness – WillW will make one
- Could make and hang more charts around the shop explaining e.g. which tubes fit on which rims
- Website can be easier to understand – Philip and WillW will consider and offer suggestions.
Brian organized four light fixtures for free – need to
- organize with CJ to put them up
- drop them lower and spread them around the shop, esp. the back dungeon
- will organize lights in the corridor
How to strengthen & improve the FR community:¶
- more the black community
- what about donating bikes to the local communities?
- more communication among FR for the ones that have the contact with organizations we deal with.
- documentation about the organiations that we dealt with in the past and have some more info about how we dealt with them in the past (pros and cons)
- how do increase more access for kids to the shop?
- what about a parents’ night?
- advertisement so that we advertise the shop more around Pgh
- to increase the number of kids we cuold target schools
- there was a suggestion about coming up with a strict and organized program to go to schools and see if they are interested
- Jessica said that there is a brochure about it already and people interested about it can see it and see what they think about it and maybe suggest changes if needed
- We need a sign for the top of the door.
- social events:
- rides
- special topics event
- quarterly
- Philip is interested in createing a teach class for how to ride safely
How to improve conflict resolution between individual members?
- there is nothing concrete to unify the collective like sports teams might
- need more guidelines about when you can act autonomously and when do you have to consult the group?
- discuss issues non-personally
- more focus on collaborative work – many people don’t have experience
- we are a group that changes people a lot
- bylaws – objective criteria for what’s ok, so it’s not
- conflict resolution team or mediator
- vibe monitor person
- check out ideas from other groups
Brainstorm code of conduct
- check out other groups, companies and the Quakers
- cover the legal stuff
- something about pro-active resolution of conflicts
- how to ask other people to leave the collective
